A poem by Alan Dugan
The trees in time
have something else to do
besides their treeing. What is it.
I’m a starving to death
man myself, and thirsty, thirsty
by their fountains but I cannot drink
their mud and sunlight to be whole.
I do not understand these presences
that drink for months
in the dirt, eat light,
and then fast dry in the cold.
They stand it out somehow,
and how, the Botanists will tell me.
It is the “something else” that bothers
me, so I often go back to the forests.
A few random poems:
- Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot
- Olney Hymn 67: Longing To Be With Christ by William Cowper
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени — копенгаген 1969
- Омар Хайям – Когда под утренней росой дрожит тюльпан
- Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away by William Shakespeare
- Scribbles by Suchi Gaur
- The Window Freäm’d Wi’ Stwone by William Barnes
- In Imitation of Spenser : The Alley poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo :
- Омар Хайям – Если жизнь все равно неизбежно пройдет
- E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Lion by Vachel Lindsay
- About The Sheltered Garden Ground by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Федор Сологуб – Святых имен твоих не знаю
- acts_of_love.html
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Lord Roberts by Rudyard Kipling
- Loot by Rudyard Kipling
- Lichtenberg by Rudyard Kipling
- L’Envoi by Rudyard Kipling
- La Nuit Blanche by Rudyard Kipling
- Kitchener’s School by Rudyard Kipling
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Justice by Rudyard Kipling
- Jubal and Tubal Cain by Rudyard Kipling
- In the Neolithic Age by Rudyard Kipling
- In the Matter of One Compass by Rudyard Kipling
- In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling
- If by Rudyard Kipling
- I Keep Six Honest… by Rudyard Kipling
- Hymn Before Action by Rudyard Kipling
- Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack by Rudyard Kipling
- Helen all Alone by Rudyard Kipling
- Harp Song of the Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling
- Half-Ballad of Waterval by Rudyard Kipling
- Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.